The winner of a CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, Val McDermid puts her Gold Dagger–winning sleuths Hill & Jordan to the side to offer this gripping stand-alone thriller about a stolen child. When ...(Read More)

Three-time Edgar Award winner Ruth Rendell here gives us the first mystery featuring her beloved Inspector Wexford in retirement, as well as her first sequel. At the conclusion of her much-lauded ...(Read More)

In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread: Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, knows that ...(Read More)

This full-steam-ahead vision of the progressive Enlightenment mind battling the corrupt remnants of the Dark Ages in 18th-century France comes from Argentinean journalist and comic-strip creator ...(Read More)

The winner of numerous literary awards—including the Whitbread Award, Somerset Maugham Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Costa Book Award—for such ...(Read More)

(2010 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner) The winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Award, Sherman Alexie presents this heartbreaking, hilarious collection ...(Read More)

Michael "Caruso" Taylor suffers from an unusual form of aphasia in this black comedy about a man whose consciousness has become disengaged from his self. "The wasties" is what he calls it. Perhaps ...(Read More)

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting ...(Read More)

Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Millhauser's fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, darkness and light. The ...(Read More)